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UNITED STATES STEVEN BURR, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented i3, MMM?.

Application led April 3, 1917. Serie). No. 159,335.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, STEVEN BURR, a citizen of the United States, and aresident ot the city7 county, and State of New York, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Cus, of which the followis e.specification..`

My invention relates to cuffs for shirts, particularly to folded cuHs,and more par* ticularly to soft folded cuffs. As is the commonexperience with those who Wear soft cull's, they find that the cuffssoil very easily and l have invented a reversible cuff oi? the foldedtype so that the cuffs may be worn longer without being laundried.

In the drawings, similar reference characters represent similar parts.

Figure 1 is the end of a shirt-sleeve provided with my improvedreversible soft cuff;

Fig. l shows the cuff before it folded;

Fig. 3 shows the inner face of the cud', .shown in Fig. 2, opened up;and

Figs. 4c and 5 show how the cuff is reversed to bring together thedi'erent faces exposed.

In the drawings, A represents e shirtsleeve; 'll the normal inner faceof the cuff, and (l the normal outer face of the cuff be- :t'ore thecuff is folded. .in use the cuff is lfolded on the horizontal line g sothat B lornis the inner and outer faces of the cuit, while (l 'forms alining' member. This is the ordinary construction oi cuff. ln myimprovement, however, l' have made the cud' in the form oi a pocket, asshown, for inlstancein Figs. 4 and 5, Fig. 4 being a section of Fig. 3.lt will be noted that C forms the normal outer 'face of the cui loei'oreit is 'folded and B the normal inner tace. The cnil is lfoldod near thecenter at g. Thr lower portion o' the cnf is folded up at g, as shown indotted lines. and a portion ol' ll then l'mrorncs the outer Visibleportion ol' the cull". ln order to make a reversible culi", the membersll :inzl (l are provided with communion 'm'es D und lll. l) being' the,companion 'l'nr'o lo :ind lli. lho romptmion l'me lo li. :is shown inlvIL'. -"l. l) :md lll l'orm ihr, lining' lor 'the pocket. Willich i! isdesired to reverse the cuit,- the feces D and E are turned so as toforni the outer faces, thereby changing the faces B and C to the innerfaces or linings of the ypocket, es shown in Fig. 5. When thecud is thenfolded, D becomes the enter visible fece of Athe cuff.

In order that there may be no rough or unfinished edges, l turn in theedges or' the faces and stitch them, es shown et the lower ends of Figs.l and 5, by stitching 1t. When the pocket is in its normal condition, asshown in Figs. 1. 2 and 3, in order to prevent the hand of the wearerfrom catching in the pocket when `the trend ie passing through thesleeve, l provide the tace E with button-holes .l adapted to engage#with buttons J located on the inner face so es to hold the pocketclosed. Each cuil' is prhvided with eight button-holes K vforcuit-buttons, four passingl through the material plies lil and E andfour through the plies ind C, arranged as shown .in Figx.

As will be readily seen from the drawings and the above description,when one face oi the cuff hns-been soiled, the cuff can be reversed soas to give a clean exposed surlacc. It is, of course, desirable forvarious reasons that the folded cuff should lalim/ans be folded outward,and this is one of the problems which I have solved by my invention. asset forth above. Having described my invention, what l claim as newanddesire to secure by 7Letters lntent is:

1. lin a reversible soft folded cud', a plurality of plies arrangedso asto forro a pocket adapted to inclose all bntone pair of plies soarranged that any pair of `plies may be exposed while inciosingg; theother plies.

ln `a reversible folding cnil, a plnrnl ity of faces arranged in pairs,adapted to form the 'faces of the culi", means attaching said fecesnlongr the edges thereof to iiorrn :i pocket, all so :wronged thateither pair of l'ncos1 when exposed will form n pocket. irirlosod onthree edges. for the other faces.

ln losthminy whereof l have signed my immo iolhis specification.

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